XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.text.pdf, rec.photo.digital   
   From: stanleyrobins@nothere.uk   
      
   On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 08:04:52 -0400, Newyana2 wrote:   
      
   >> Don't even get me started on exif editors, video editors, screenshot   
   >> editors, etc.   
   >   
   >     You're like a flash from the past. A return to the heyday of   
   > the PC craze around the late 90s and early 00s. I remember   
   > when I first got a computer (late '98) I loved going to the download   
   > sites to download new stuff. At one point I ran into someone who   
   > was very pleased to have 5 or 6 startup managers lined up on his   
   > Start Menu. :)   
   >   
   >    As much as I was thrilled by my new hobby, I didn't use a computer   
   > for work and didn't actually have any use for it. I was like an Amazonian   
   > tribesman who's found a car and just gets a big thrill out of making   
   > the windows go up and down.   
   >   
   >    Up until that point I'd been making fun of people who paid $300   
   > for PDAs and then would take 10 minutes to record my phone   
   > number on it. (I understand that today PDA stands for "public display   
   > of affection". As in "Ben seen here pouring on the PDA with JLo.")   
      
   I use freeware exclusively on the PC for editing, where I'm well aware you   
   can subscribe to any number of services to do editing of images & video.   
      
   For audio, my editor of choice is audacity & for meta data, mp3tag.   
   For listening to audio, I mostly use MPC-BE (it's fast, like Irfanview).   
   For images, I mostly use Irfanview (for the simple edits).   
   For images, I mostly use Paint.NET (for the harder edits).   
   For 3D, I'd use Blender (or Krita, but I don't do vector graphics much).   
   For complex video tasks I'd mostly use Shotcut.   
   For video viewing, I'd use mostly VLC for movies (MPC-BE for simple stuff).   
   For video trimming, it gets complicated with avisynth & lame/ffmpeg cmds.   
      
   But what gets really complicated is editing of PDFs using Windows freeware!   
      
   This is the latest chart I pulled off the ng (which needs updating).   
   [x] Fast PDF reader: (Sumatra or Foxit)   
   [x] Shrink PDFs (ImageMagick or Acrobat payware or rlvision shareware)   
   [x] Edit PDF existing text (Adobe Reader commenting, Acrobat payware)   
   [x] Globally search & replace PDF text (Libre Office)   
   [x] Archive sites (wkhtmltopdf, Acrobat payware,fastone scroll capture)   
   [x] Add or concatonate pages (pdftk, acrobat payware)   
   [x] Remove pages (pdfsam, pdftk)   
   [x] Rotate pages (Acrobat Reader)   
   [x] Renumber pages (Acrobat Reader)   
   [x] Permissions (Ghostscript & Ghostview/ps2edit/pdfwrite or pdf2djvu)   
   [x] Merge PDFs (pdfsam, pdftk)   
   [x] Extract images (PDF Exchange Viewer, PDF Shaper)   
   [x] Reorder pages (mutool)   
   [x] Print sans username in the properties (Libre Office Writer)   
   [?] Print book format PDF (FinePrint payware)   
   [x] Tile PDFs (i.e., to print large posters) (Posterazor)   
   [x] Create PDF new text (Irfanview or Paint.NET plugins + Ghostscript)   
   [x] Convert PDF to MSWord or any epub format & vice versa (Calibre)   
   [x] Add signature (Adobe Reader Fill-and-sign sign-yourself tool)   
   [x] Online shrink PDF https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/online/compress-pdf.html   
      
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